fat: handle Windows formatted partition (thru USB Mass Storage)

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 13:43:43 CET 2020


On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:23 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:21 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:14 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On 1/13/20 10:52 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > This image loads fine on current U-Boot, see below.
> >
> > Of course it does *in the test case you have done*.
> > I'm describing different one. The provided image must be a *partition*
> > on the real disk.
> >
> > So, before use it the preparatory steps must be made.
> >
> > Something like
> >
> > % dd if=/dev/zero of=image-file bs=1M count=1000
> > % fdisk image-file
> >  ...create a partition table, where one partition has a (similar) size
> > of the image I provided
> > % mount -o loop,offset=... image-file /mnt # use *partition* as a disk!
> > % dd --sparse if=mmc-fat-part of=/mnt
> > % umount /mnt
> >
> > And use image-file instead.
>
> Should I prepare it for you or you can do it yourself?

It's there under name image-file.gz

Commit messages have the commands I performed to get this image cooked.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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